Steve Collins, a man who established PS5 in 1986, now an internationally recognised consultancy, providing training to the law enforcement, defence and the security sectors in countries around the world, once said: “There are a handful of supremely skilled people out there that could disarm you, take your knife and stab you four times with it before you realised you weren’t holding the knife anymore if you are faced with the horror of a real knife attack and, for whatever reason, have forgotten to put on your full medieval battle armour, then don’t be a mug, run away!” A point backed up by a certain American soldier who released a video on YouTube recently.
2015 – 50 workers at a Chinese coal mine were killed in a coordinated knife attack.
2017 – 18 people walking down a city street were injured when a man attacked them with a knife 2017 – 13 people were seriously injured by a knife-wielding assailant at a shopping mall in Beijing.
The Office for National Statistics said the 14,987 knife crimes in the year until the end of June was a 15 percent rise compared to the previous 12 months.
John McShane compiles a catalogue of the UK’s most high-profile knife murders over the last few years in his book “Knife Crime: The Law of the Blade”.
Knife crime is mostly present in the poorest and most deprived places where violence is a clear sign of deeper problems such as poverty and social exclusion.
Social Media: Social media has also been blamed for the increase in knife crime, with some experts arguing that social media means everything to these knife carrying criminals.
Some even say there might have been situations in the past where someone would have walked away and backed down, but now people are recording these attacks and videos of major knife attacks.
Any individual can just go home grab a kitchen knife and return to the place of anger and hate, in order to deal with others in the only way he believes is right at that very moment in time of their life.
Due to the strict gun control in Europe and other countries, and the extremely low planning required to conduct a knife attack whether against an individual or mass group, knives have recently become the weapon of choice for many so called “Lone-wolf attackers”.
We simply cannot prevent people from walking into the kitchen or the local hardware store, grabbing a knife and randomly stab other human beings.
If one has the intentions to cause harm to others using a knife or edged weapon, then Intelligence Services and Law Enforcement Agencies will always struggle to prevent such atrocity.
The desire for certain military or government personnel to carry a concealed weapon e.g. knife is of a totally different nature.
An additional reason why more people selected the knife over a gun when killing another human is because they could not get a gun.
A knife is easy to use and it almost doesn’t matter where you stab that body, it will hurt a lot and likely kill that person.
Two of the last so called ‘feral’ knife attacks in the UK took place in September 2016 when Jamiv Usman attacked his 19-year young girlfriend and stabbed her more than hundred times.
Most readers would not believe the potential ‘speed of motion’ in such vicious attack, and it is that ‘speed of motion’ that makes the subject of ‘knife defence’ so complex.
Not many who have been in a knife fight have not been cut and injured at all… you must accept that.
How do we do that? * RUN AWAY – if you can… run… run as fast as possible! * FILL THE SPACE – the good thing about a knife is you cannot get killed by such weapon from a certain distance.
The recent knife incident in Melbourne highlighted that even a shopping trolley can be used to ‘protect that gap’.
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